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Re: [CFVI] Hand-Counted Paper Ballots in 2008

     Just don't forget the requirments of HAVA for voting devices for the disabled.  Much as the SOS's office has actively tried to convince us otherwise, that doesn't mean DRE's are necessary. 
     We need to form a legislative committee; maybe a subcommittee would investigate the handcounted paper ballots option; there is plenty of interest in this in Colorado.  Bruce, would you be willing to be on such a subcommittee?
      Who else would like to be on the legislative committee?
       Other committees are:a research committee, which will analyze election returns; and a voting device committee, which will look into possibilities for certification/ re-certification of machines.  The small voting machine companies have been discouraged from applying for certification in Colorado.  This has to change; what little I know about it suggests that they have some of the better products.  (Avante?  Populex?) 
Margit
 
Margit Johansson, CFVI
303-442-1668/ margitjo@xxxxxxxxx

 
On 11/17/06, Bruce McNaughton <bjmcn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Harnassing the anger generated by the Denver Election Debacle of 2006 and
celebrating the introduction of the Paper Ballot Act of 2006 by Dennis Kucinich
(HR 6200)  http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/03/18317658.php  , I hope
we can move beyond the 'we can't make it work here' mentality regarding accu-
rate and transparent elections, and work to make our election process a thing
we can be proud of. 
 
A protocol for hand-counted paper ballots is described in the following article
http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/specials/article.2006-04-10.1693298872  
by Sheila Parks Ed.D.
 
I'm going to be looking into how other places around the US and the world make
the HCPB idea work, how we can adapt existing systems to our conditions rather
than having to reinvent them, and how imagination can make it all our own. 
 
We don't have a lot of time.  I hope we can make it work.
 
All paper, no machines. 
 
Bruce McNaughton